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By Kenneth Schenck
This is a compact introduction to the work of Philo (c. 20 BCE-50 CE), the important Jewish thinker and scriptural interpreter. Kenneth Schenck provides a guide for understanding Philo's complex works, a roadmap for topics and contents of Philo's wri...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/2/2005
ISBN: 9780664227357
Format: 6x9
Pages: 184
By Victor H. Matthews
Grounded in the latest archeological developments, Victor Matthews's A Brief History of Ancient Israel presents a concise history of Israel covering the ancestral period, conquest and settlement, the monarchy, and both the exilic and postexilic perio...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/30/2002
ISBN: 9780664224363
Format: 6x9
Pages: 160
By P. R.S. Moorey
This historical survey of the relationship between archaeology and biblical studies in the archaeological excavations in Palestine at Tell el-Hesi from 1840 to 1990 concentrates on the work of major excavators and scholars. It is a panoramic overview...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253929
Format: 5x8
Pages: 208
By John H. Hayes, J. Maxwell Miller
This classic textbook, widely used for over two decades, constructs a history of ancient Israel and Judah through a thorough investigation of epigraphical, archaeological, and biblical sources. Approaching biblical history as history, Miller and Haye...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 7/12/2006
ISBN: 9780664223588
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 584
By John Bright
Unsurpassed for nearly half a century, and now with a new introduction and appendix by William P. Brown, John Bright's A History of Israel will continue to be a standard for a new generation of students of the Old Testament. This book remains a class...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 7/1/2000
ISBN: 9780664220686
Format: 6x9
Pages: 533
By Stephen A. Cooper
In this book, Stephen Cooper provides an overview of the greatest theologian of the early church: Augustine of Hippo. Augustine has had a towering influence in the history of Christianity and his Confessions has long been regarded as one of Christian...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/30/2002
ISBN: 9780664223724
Format: 5x8
Pages: 216
By Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins, Carol L. Meyers, LEO G. PERDUE
Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implications are made for the family today.The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers infor...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/1997
ISBN: 9780664255671
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 285
By Shaye J.D. Cohen
In this new edition of a best-selling classic, Shaye Cohen offers a thorough analysis of Judaism's development from the early years of the Roman Empire to the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and histor...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 6/6/2006
ISBN: 9780664227432
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 264
Female Saviors and Formative Christianity
By Gail P.C. Streete
This book examines the image of the savior and the experience of salvation, two concepts that are inextricably entwined. Gail Streete asserts that Christianity set aside female images of salvation by emphasizing the maleness of Jesus. She draws on so...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253899
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 228
By Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez, Justo L. Gonzalez
In this unique Armchair volume, noted church historians Justo and Catherine Gonzalez introduce readers to important early church figures whose teachings were denounced by the church as heresies. Instructional for what they taught and for revealing wh...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/31/2008
ISBN: 9780664232054
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 176
By Niels Peter Lemche
Niels Peter Lemche focuses on the way Israelites understood themselves at different points in history--before, within, and after the monarchy. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Israel's rich history.Volumes in the ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1998
ISBN: 9780664227272
Format: 6x9
Pages: 260
A Survey of Belief and Practice
By Jacob Neusner
In this book, Jacob Neusner gives an introductory, systematic, and holistic account of the theology and practice of Rabbinic Judaism, which emerged, along with Christianity, from antiquity and formed the classical statement of Judaism to the present ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 8/31/2002
ISBN: 9780664225278
Format: 6x9
Pages: 208
Conversations in Context
By Calvin J. Roetzel
Calvin Roetzel's The Letters of Paul has long been established as the most effective textbook for introducing Paul and Paul's writings to undergraduate and seminary students. This new edition updates the text to include new scholarship developed afte...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/30/2009
ISBN: 9780664233921
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 288
By Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager
This special-edition volume of the Library of Ancient Israel, based on the latest research, presents a vivid description of the world of Ancient Israel, covering such topics as domestic life, the means of existence, cultural expression, and religious...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/2002
ISBN: 9780664221485
Format: 7 X 10
Pages: 440
By Norman K. Gottwald
In this volume, Norman Gottwald reconstructs the politics of ancient Israel within the larger political environment of the ancient Near East. He questions the prevailing view that the Hebrew Bible, supported by archeological evidence when necessary, ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
ISBN: 9780664232344
Format: 6x9
Pages: 388
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